As she partakes more or less of this heavenly light, she informs, with corresponding characters, the fleshly tenement which she chooses, and frames to herself a suitable mansion.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Things had livened surprisingly, though at the sacrifice of much of the spontaneous charm of freshman year.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

So o'er the field that host lay strown, By Viśvámitra's darts o'erthrown.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The travellers had lingered so long among the sublimer scenes of these mountains, that they found themselves entirely mistaken in their calculation that they could reach Montigny at sun-set; but, as they wound along the valley, the saw, on a rude Alpine bridge, that united two lofty crags of the glen, a group of mountaineer-children, amusing themselves with dropping pebbles into a torrent below, and watching the stones plunge into the water, that threw up its white spray high in the air as it received them, and returned a sullen sound, which the echoes of the mountains prolonged.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Or what religion did Prodicus the Chian leave to men, who held that everything beneficial to human life should be numbered among the Gods? Were not they likewise void of religion who taught that the Deities, at present the object of our prayers and adoration, were valiant, illustrious, and mighty men who arose to divinity after death?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

She wished she could hear from Skrebensky, in answer to her letter, so that her course should be resolved, she should be engaged in fulfilling her fate.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He was struck with the palsy, and though he lived some time yet in such a way, that his enemies considered him as a person below their resentment.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In her cheap cotton dress with blue pansies on it, in her red shoes and the same straw hat, she seemed to herself, little, simple, light, ethereal as a butterfly.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that his lad should step into the whole property.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

1777—A scene in Macbeth. 1780—Ezzelin Bracciaferro musing over Meduna, slain by him for disloyalty during his absence in the Holy Land.—Satan starting from the touch of Ithuriel's lance.—Jason appearing before Pelias, to whom the sight of a man with a single sandal had been predicted fatal.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

She pulled herself together with a supreme effort, and, raising her glass of red Hungarian wine to her lips, said lightly: “Here’s to my successor!
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Rock hurtled out of the heading like shot from a gigantic gun barrel.
— from The High Hander by William Oliver Turner

" So overwhelmed was Mrs. Conway at this termination to her long search that she sank on the ground, and it was some time before she could collect herself sufficiently to consider what was her best course.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

How shall I express her womanly terror, her loving, sympathizing pity, on hearing the tale, which I softened as well as I could? “And to think that I knew nothing of this!”
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Two hours later she took the air.
— from The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight by T. D. Hallam